Services
Studies to identify and quantify dumping or subsidy practices.
Studies on damage or threat of damage to domestic industries caused by dumping or subsidy practices.
Legal representation in antidumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations, as well as in antidumping duties, sunset reviews, and anti-circumvention proceedings.
Economic and financial advice including “in situ” verifications of companies under investigation for alleged dumping practices.
Commercial monitoring and alert systems for detection and prevention of unfair trade practices.
Experience
State-to-State Disputes
SAI professionals have participated in the following State-to-State disputes as State representatives:
- WTO DS, China – Grants, Loans and Other Incentives (DS388).
- WTO DS, China – Certain Measures Granting Refunds, Reductions or Exemptions from Taxes and Other Payments (WTO/DS359).
- WTO DS, United States – Final Anti-dumping Measures on Stainless Steel from Mexico (Zeroing) (DS344).
- WTO DS, Mexico – Definitive Countervailing Measures on Olive Oil from the European Communities (DS341).
As Counsel
- In the bilateral NAFTA Safeguard: US Chicken Leg Quarters, the only safeguard measure applied in Mexico under NAFTA.
- In the only successful case in Mexico against subsidies by the European Union to agro-industrial products.
- Lead counsel and economic advisors in several anti-dumping cases, among them:
- Brazil- Electrical transformers;
- Korea- Refrigerators;
- China- Footwear and Leather Products, Textile and Apparel;
- United States- Bovine Meat;
- United States- Soap, Oil and Cleaning Products.
- Carbon and Alloy Steel Labs
- Acrylic sheets
- Ammonium Sulfate
- Counsel to the Government of Mexico in connection with the negotiations for the agreement on anti-dumping measures affecting the importation of products from China.
As Members of the Arbitration Panel
- President of the WTO panel in United States — Origin Marking Requirement (DS597).
- Member of the WTO panel in United States- Antidumping Methodologies (China) (DS471).
- Member of the WTO panel in the Recourse 22.6 invoked by the United States, in the United States- Antidumping Methodologies (China) (DS471).
- and the Recourse 22.6 by the United States (DS471) case.
- Member of the arbitration panel to NAFTA Chapter XIX – Stearic acid (MEX-USA-2011-1904-01).
- Member of the arbitration panel to NAFTA Chapter XIX – Chicken legs and thighs (MEX-USA-2012-1904-01).
- Member of the arbitration panel NAFTA Chapter XIX – Ether (AD) (MEX-USA-2012-1904-02).
- Assistant to panelist under Chapter XIX of NAFTA Dispute Settlement Mechanism, Antidumping Steel Plate Case (MEX-94-1904-02).
Success stories
- Commercial Remedies
- Food and beverages, Foreign Trade
Poultry Industry – Chicken Legs and Thighs
SAI successfully represented domestic producers of chicken legs and thighs against imports from the United States sold at dumping prices. The defense of the Mexican industry’s interests extended to a binational panel established under Chapter XIX of NAFTA, confirming the strength of the firm’s legal and economic strategy.
- Commercial Remedies
- Food and beverages, Foreign Trade
Olive Oil Industry – European Union Subsidies Case
SAI represented the Mexican olive oil industry in the only successful case in Mexico involving subsidies granted by the European Union to agro industrial products, achieving the adoption of measures to protect the domestic industry.
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